Manning is a casualty of the information war

As a gay soldier in the Army, Bradley Manning understood “the tyranny of secrets on a personal as well as a political level,” says Laurie Penny in the New Statesman. This case is about more than whistle-blowing and free speech, it’s “about secrets, and who gets to have them, and from whom, and at what cost,” she says.

Garbage. He was different so he gets to make the rules? He was picked on so he gets a pass?

He didn’t selectively release classified information, he did a dump without caring who or what may have been endangered by what may have been contained. I’d have more sympathy for someone who at least was doing it for a “cause” besides his own fragility.

What kind of person, gay or straight, could look at videos of atrocities committed by AMERICAN soldiers and not be outraged. Is human life so cheap for you flag waving morons that you would not act to stop wanton murder? I don’t personally care to have whole families murdered in my name in a war that was totally based on a lie. The real traitors are the liars in government that got us into Iraq in the first place. And if the only answer you can give is “9/11″, don’t bother answering. We know where you head is squarely placed. Leave it there and let the rest of us evolve.